chin

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
chin/tʃɪn/

▶noun the protruding part of the face below the mouth, formed by the apex of the lower jaw. ▶verb

• 1 informal hit or punch (someone) on the chin.

• 2 draw one's body up so that one's chin is level with (a horizontal bar), as an exercise.

– phrases
keep one's chin up informal remain cheerful in difficult circumstances.
take it on the chin informal accept misfortune stoically.

– derivatives
-chinned adjective.

– origin OE cin, cinn, of Gmc origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Chin /tʃɪn/

▶noun (pl. same or Chins)

• 1 a member of a people of SW Burma (Myanmar) and neighbouring parts of India and Bangladesh.

• 2 the Tibeto-Burman language of the Chin.

– origin from Burmese, ‘hill man’.